Analyst(s): Brendan BurkePublication date: February 10, 2026 Texas Instruments (TI) has agreed to acquire Silicon Labs for $7.5 billion in cash, combining TI’s scale of analog and embedded processing with Silicon Labs’ wireless connectivity portfolio. The deal highlights a strategic bet on manufacturing capabilities and integrated markets. What is covered in this article: Transaction: Texas…
Microsoft’s development center in Israel is creating a new Israeli AI Red Team, focused on identifying weaknesses and threats in artificial intelligence systems. The new group will simulate advanced attacks against the company’s AI-based services and operate within Microsoft’s internal security organization. At the same time, Microsoft is recruiting around 50 employees for cybersecurity positions…
Figure 1. Ralph Wiggum has recently been the talk of the AI coding developer community, as Vivek on X explains. The “Ralph loop” in Claude Code adds a “verify and try again” loop to agentic coding tasks. Many users found it remarkably useful for completing some agentic coding tasks, so the method has gone viral….
In 2025, 63.8% of young people aged 16-24 in the EU were using generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools. This share is almost twice as high as the share of the general population having used these tools (32.7% of 16-74 year olds). Young people are introducing the use of generative AI in different areas of life….
Pour ceux qui espéraient que l’intelligence artificielle aiderait à fournir des médicaments réellement efficaces, l’espoir perdure. Ici, le Dr Raminderpal Singh revient sur la triste réalité que 2025 a apportée à l’industrie. L’année 2025 restera dans les mémoires comme le moment où la découverte de médicaments contre l’IA est passée de la promesse à la…
Starlink clients are the latest thing for the AI mill. The company has updated its Privacy Policy on January 15 to enable the collection of user data for AI training. Customers are registered by default, but it is relatively simple to unsubscribe. Starlink says it may use your personal information “to train our machine learning…
SoundHound and Salesforce are betting big on agentic AI. The next big evolution in artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to be agentic AI, in which AI agents will perform tasks autonomously, with little or no human supervision. The technology carries the promise of a workforce of AI agents who work alongside everyday employees. It’s no…
(TNS) — For many residents, stinking trash is a nuisance that must be disposed of as quickly as possible, often without concern for what happens once it’s thrown into a trash can. This waste has to go somewhere, usually to a landfill. But the landfill used by South Hampton Roads municipalities fills up quickly, requiring…
Christmas adverts from McDonald’s and Coca-Cola to Catly, ARK: Aquatica, and “slop” becomes the 2025 word of the year according to Merriam-Webster – one wouldn’t be blamed for assuming that, by now, everyone has gotten the memo: AI-generated visuals fail to resonate with the general public, and almost inevitably result in a product being labeled…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to visit India in mid-February, his first visit to the country in nearly a year, TechCrunch has learned. The visit comes as New Delhi prepares to host a major AI summit that is expected to attract top executives from Meta, Google and Anthropic. India hosts its first major AI event:…